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List five things you learned after the age of twelve that you learned totally outside of school. Try to think of three friends wh...

I think the idea of "self-regulating" suggests that there are things people should, or must, or have to do, and they should...

Sometimes I want to whine. Sometimes I do. It never helps. When making a conscious decision about how to respond or how to re...

Having a happy home comes from the creation and maintenance of happy conditions! Produce as much as you can. You'll fill yourself ...

One time long ago Keith was cranky and told me that because of me he had to go to work every day, and make house payments. I heard h...

"jbantau" wrote , in the midst of sharing how she changed her life to accommodate unschooling: Doing things with my children...

Sandra Dodd to Pam Sorooshian, in a sort of group interview: You've been communicating closely with all kinds of homeschoolers, ...

Sandra Dodd: Principles produce all kinds of answers where rules fail. Alex Polikowsky: Some people come to unschooling and in the...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: It helped me think more clearly about unschooling when I realized unschooling isn’t something kids do. Unsc...

Some people define unschooling as a relationship (or lack of one) with school. Others define it as a relationship (or potential dam...

Karen James wrote: Cultivating an attitude of gratitude for the many gifts in my life has taken me from a place of hopelessness in my...

The best moments are when an activity might look like work, but it feels like play. It can happen to anyone. SandraDodd.com/playing ...

A mom named Tracey wrote: I am finding that it is when I can most fully let go of what 'should be' and most fully embrace 'w...

This photo is the background for the "L" on the new(ish) Learn Nothing Day logo. Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Real learning, the kind...

We don't always see things clearly and directly. Two people, in the same place, will have different perceptions and reactions. ...

Pam Sorooshian described what she called "a very basic tenet of unschooling": Surround the child with a swirling, wonderful, exci...

Keith and I have enjoyed our children and the success of our experiments and experiences has been a joint project at which we were very s...

The other day on facebook, someone asked friends to share their most recent photo of nature. I looked through my photos, back two months, a...

Seasons change, and yet it's the same old seasons, in the same old order. People can change, but they're still people, who get ex...

By making the better choice, you step away from the worse choice. SandraDodd.com/choicees photo by Ester Siroky